1981 CONCACAF Championship

The 1981 CONCACAF Championship, the 8th staging of the CONCACAF Championship, was held in Honduras from November 1 to November 22. All games were played in the Estadio Tiburcio Carias Andino in Tegucigalpa. This tournament was won by the host, Honduras, who earned their first title and secured for the first time so far, a place in Spain 1982 since the tournament also served as qualification to the World Cup. The North, Central American and Caribbean zone was allocated two places (out of 24) in the final tournament. This edition was marked by an upset as Mexico, traditional CONCACAF heavyweights and needing a win to go through, were eliminated by Honduras. The 0–0 tie between Mexico and Honduras gave El Salvador in the World Cup as runner-ups. El Salvador also became the first Central American team to qualify for more than one World Cup (a record that has been broken by Costa Rica). This will be the last tournament which will feature a host nation for the final round.

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1982 FIFA World Cup

The 1982 FIFA World Cup, the 12th FIFA World Cup, was held in Spain from 13 June to 11 July, 1982. Spain was chosen as hosts by FIFA in July 1966. The tournament was won by Italy, after beating West Germany 3–1 in the final. Italy equalled Brazil's record of winning the World Cup 3 times. The tournament was marked by a series of great matches and is widely regarded by fans and pundits as the best World Cup since the 1970 tournament. And for the first time the World Cup was expanded to feature 24 teams, 8 more than in the previous tournament 1978.

The most surprising absentees from the finals were those of 1974 and 1978 runners-up Netherlands (eliminated by Belgium and France), North America's power Mexico (eliminated by Honduras), and to a lesser extent 1974 and 1978 participant Sweden (eliminated by Scotland and Northern Ireland). England, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Soviet Union were back in the Finals after a 12-year absence. Yugoslavia were also back after missing the 1978 tournament. Algeria, Cameroon, Honduras, Kuwait, and New Zealand all participated in the World Cup for the first time.

Honduras qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time in 1982. Despite getting draws against host Spain, 1-1, and Northern Ireland, 1-1, they could not come up with a win against Yugoslavia losing 0-1. Now Honduras has qualified for World cup 2010, you can buy Honduras world cup tickets and World Cup tickets for other teams online from ticket4football.

Facts About Honduras

Honduras was the first Central American football team to score 2 goals at a World Cup tournament.
Honduras is the only Central American football team to defeat and eliminate Brazil in a tournament (Copa América 2001 in quarterfinals).
Competed and finished third in the CONCACAF Fourth Round of Qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Are qualified for 2010 FIFA World Cup. The new mascot for the team is named El Catrachin.

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Copa América 2001

Since 1993, CONMEBOL has invited teams from other confederations to participate in their confederation championship, Copa América. Honduras took part as one of the last minute teams added for Copa América 2001. (Argentina dropped out one day before kickoff.) The team arrived only a few hours before the tournament's first game and with barely enough players. Despite the odds, Honduras progressed onto the quarter-final stage where they faced and defeated Brazil 2-0. In the semi-finals however, it was Colombia that knocked off Honduras, 0-2.

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2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

The qualification competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North America), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament. A total of 204 teams entered the qualification process, with South Africa, as the host, qualifying automatically. The first qualification matches were played on 25 August 2007 and qualification concluded on 18 November 2009. Overall, 2337 goals were scored over 848 matches.

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Honduras Stadium

Honduras plays the majority of its home games at Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano (pictured) in San Pedro Sula. El Olímpico was bulit in 1997, and has a capacity of 45,000. Aside from being the home of the national team, it was the home of the 1997 Central American Olympics and is currently the home of C.D. Marathón.

When not playing at the Estadio Olimpico, the national team also plays at Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino in Tegucigalpa. Tiburcio Carías Andino opened on March 15, 1948, and seats 35,000 people.

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Arrival of Football in Honduras

There are many theories on how football started practice in Honduras. In the Atlantic Cost, caused by the increasing exportation of bananas in the cities of La Ceiba and Tela in that time they were the most important ports of the country.

Julio Luis Ustariz, a son of French immigrants wrote some memories that some merchants gave him a soccer ball in 1896 as a gift in Puerto Cortes. Since then soccer had been in practice in Honduras.

But until 1906 an official document by the republic's government hired a Guatemalan professor named Miguel Saravia to teach soccer at the Escuela Normal de Varones in Tegucigalpa. In 1909, three years after the arrival of the professor Saravia; the Spanish monk Niglia made soccer appear at the Instituto Salesiano San Miguel in Comayagua.

Football became popular, especially in higher classes, although it couldn't compete against baseball which at the time was the most popular sport until 1917. The team known as Juventud Olimpica founded in 1912 became Club Deportivo Olimpia.

Like Olimpia other clubs were founded in Tegucigalpa, like the teams Lituania, Signos, Trebol, Honduras, Atletico Deportes, La Nueva Era, Colon and Spring, all of which don't exist now.

It was until 1925 which football became to gain strength in the second most important city, San Pedro Sula with the foundation of Club Deportivo Marathón. For some historians of that era, before Marathon (was named after a rugby ball) there was a club named Club Patria but with very small amount of duracion, the president of the Republic, Dr. Miguel Paz Barahona named the sporting fields Patria Marathon.

The year 1926 a team surged which was were a lot of good players and for many, the real birth of what is now today Olimpia, Argentina and Espana (known as los Tejeros) which had a training camp at Barrio Guanacaste, Tegucigalpa.

In the year 1928 Club Deportivo Motagua was born, the name was given since at the time the river Motagua was being in dispute between Guatemala and Honduras. The enthusiastic Dr. Marco Antonio Ponce and the writer and poet Marco Antonio Rosa decided name "Motagua" for the disappearance of "America Aguila" and "Honduras Atletica"

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Honduras National Football Team.. History

The Honduras national football team, nicknamed Los Catrachos, is the national team of Honduras and is controlled by the Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras (founded in 1951). They are a rising team in CONCACAF, an ascent that started with their third place finish in the 2001 Copa América behind the first place Colombia and the Second Place Mexico , where they were a late invitee, due to a withdrawal by Argentina one day prior to kickoff. In October 2009, they confirmed qualification to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which will be their first appearance in the competition since 1982.

Honduras played its first game against Guatemala on September 14th 1921, where they unfortunately lost by a large margin.

The Football War started after a qualifying game for the 1970 World Cup against El Salvador. After massive rioting between the fans, on 14 July 1969, the Salvadoran army launched an attack against Honduras. A cease fire was put in effect six days later.

Honduras won the 1981 CONCACAF Championship. Honduras qualified for the World Cup in 1982 and 2009. They finished second in both the 1985 CONCACAF Championship and the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Honduras won the UNCAF Nations Cup twice in 1993 and 1995.

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